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From: keithh@atreus.uucp (Keith Hanlan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DNET tty wierdness
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Date: 5 Dec 89 21:00:52 GMT
References: <18796@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <18796@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
>When I run DNET, the tty's that it creates for fterm aren't set up
>properly:
>
>watdragon [101]% ls -l /dev/ttyq9
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root           20,  25 Nov 29 13:05 /dev/ttyq9
>
>There should not be rw perms for everyone, first.
	I don't know much about Dnet but these things tend to be vendor
	specific. On my Sun, consoles a rw- owner and rw- others and group
	depending on umask and mesg. On the HP, it's similar but they don't
	even bother with read permission for group and other. Check your
	umask and your mesg.
>
>Second, why is the owner root?!?!
	On my Sun, consoles are owned by root. On my HP, consoles
	are owned by me (keithh).

	I think its just that Matt is trying to avoid changing the
	conventions of the particular OS, in an attempt to be as portable as
	possible.

	Regards,
	Keith
Keith Hanlan
Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645
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